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With locations in 13 states across America, Stanton Optical helps clients from Georgia to California achieve better vision with prescription glasses, sunglasses, and contacts. Its shelves are stocked with more than 3,000 frames and sunglasses from high-end brands, including Coach, Calvin Klein, and Armani. Full-service onsite labs help optometrists immediately craft glasses and clone monocles without the delay of sending eyewear elsewhere. Eye exams are
performed by independent eye doctors conveniently located within or
adjacent to Stanton Optical stores.

Capitol Nutrition's capsule experts aid customers in selecting the ideal supplements to improve workout experience and bolster personal health. They steer clients towards body-building products sold at wholesale prices, as well as aisles brimming with the latest vitamins and supplements designed to bolster memory, energy, stamina, and overall well-being. Before entering Capitol Nutrition's health-fostering confines, patrons can peruse a collection of diet tips to learn how to construct a dietary plan, pick supplements for weight loss, and pretend donuts are nothing more than miniature tires.

Joppa Minerals founder Amy Casto-Booher began her search for chemical-free cosmetics in 2005, when her daughter, Hayley, was diagnosed with psoriasis. Dissatisfied with the products she found on the market, Amy started crafting all-natural beauty products herself, eschewing additives for pure minerals. Amy's mineral foundation is her first and best-selling product, melding into skin in one of four formulas that cater to oily, aging, or gill-flecked skin. Amy also keeps her lightweight products—which include face creams, blush, eye shadow, and blemish treatments—at a reasonable price.

At Derma Med Spa, Dr. M. Siddiqui and licensed aesthetician and laser technician Ekram Subuh help clients transform their faces and bodies with high-tech, noninvasive beauty and health procedures. Microdermabrasion and photofacial treatments remove layers of dead skin cells and splotches of hyperpigmentation from faces with high-tech techniques, while lasers zap away unwanted follicles on any surface of skin across the body. Doctors help clients fight signs of aging with targeted applications of Botox or Juvederm, and laser specialists remove ill-advised inkings of grunge band logos or grocery lists with tattoo removal. Even makeup services are offered from Chicago-based freelancer Ania Massat, who offers personal makeup application for everyone, from brides-to-be on their big day to an adult's first trip to the dentist.

To call The Body Shop a mere skin and body care store is to miss half of what makes it special. Late founder Dame Anita Roddick was a pioneer for ethical business practices; upon opening her first store in Brighton, England, in 1976, she developed company values such as "Defend Human Rights" and "Protect The Planet." She somehow balanced principles and profit, partnering in global campaigns with UNICEF, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, and the United Nations, all while ultimately expanding her brand into 2,500 locations in over 60 international markets. After her death in 2007, then-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said, ?She campaigned for green issues for many years before it became fashionable to do so and inspired millions to the cause by bringing sustainable products to a mass market. . . . She was an inspiration.?
Indeed, the Body Shop exhibits an eco-friendliness and social consciousness that's hard to come by in a company of its size. Its products have been fair-trade since 1987, and its Against Animal Testing movement led to an EU-wide ban of animal testing of cosmetics. The products are made from ingredients harvested from around the world: shea butter from Ghana goes into body scrubs and butters, and Indian artisans craft wooden massagers and tote bags that are screenprinted by hand. But all that isn't to say the company's production practices overshadow its final products. Skincare treatments such as the brand?s iconic body butters, facial products, and gift collections often appear in Allure, Marie Claire, Lucky, Seventeen and other national publications.